Be Excellent To Each Other

Zigackly. Upset me, that did. Hmph. Also, as someone else said, if their policy was based on trade, they'd be too similar to the Dutch.



Ahh, that's a good one. That'd be significant and unique but not overpowering. Not sure how you'd work it into the history, but I'm sure it could be done.

One more thing, let's compare the number of speakers nowadays for each language:

English: 341 million
Spanish: 322
Portuguese: 250
French: 78
Dutch: 20

We can see clearly the influence of each country colonization. How can a country which had an empire based on trade outposts has the 6th most spoken language in the world? And also it was the european nation who started the whole age of discoveries. Its influence in the whole process, be it on the Navigation techniques, Ship construction or trade routes were much more important
than the dutch. Brazil was reached in 1500, India in 1488. The dutch only started the colonization almost 100 years after.

Not being biased or anything. This are just facts, and i'm sure that once Sid Meier had a girlfriend who left him for a portuguese guy.

There are way more than 20 people that can speak Dutch. I've seen it on telly.

A party, many years ago:

Debs: "I'm sorry Sid, but Mr Hiraldo has a smooth, suave voice and reads me poetry, while you just talk about the invention of the wheel in a nasal whine."

Sid: "But... but wheels are still cool, Debs!"

Hiraldo: "Ey, Senor Meier. This nothing personal. All is fair in love and..."

Hiraldo sniggers, looks down at Sid's coffee table and with a crocodile shoe punts a box of Gettysburg into the waste basket.

Hiraldo: "... wargames. Ha ha ha!"

Debs: "Oh Hiraldo, you're so witty! And manly!" She rubs his chest and giggles.

Sid: "Damn you! Damn you all! Laugh now, Hiraldo, but I shall have my revenge. Oh yes, one turn! One turn far in the future the dice will roll, and you will find you and your slick, oily Porto ways aren't so hot stuff after all. Hear me?! HEAR ME, HIRALDO! ONE TURN, MARK MY WORDS! ONE TURN!"

etc.

They were making it up to fool you.

once i asked a belgian girl if she spoke french or dutch and she was very offended. These 20 people feet must really smell

Civ V: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/64382

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5489 ?

MODS!

That is either (a) a summoning of mods to sort out you posting about civ5 in a civ4 topic or
(b) you posting about this as it could be turned into colonization.

if (b) I'm going to to find the fallout thread and post that video too. Maybe find a thread about Serious Sam too...

It's a.

Aww, I was hoping b.

I think it's c) A new swear word.

a) delete it and rewrite it, you lazy shit.
b) move it yourself, you lazy shit.

Can't now someone else has posted.

Can't.
Admin, not Moderator, remember*?

Also, what about c) don't care?

*Although I had to change that spammy signature recently, mainly because you all** have the forum 'pretty' settings wound so far down so your boss doesn't notice what you're doing you'd be reading it in Braille if you could
**Except Gaywood, dunno about him. And hey, hang on - Kalmar doesn't have a boss, does he?

FFS.

I've got sigs on. I was totally confused by the fact that jimmy the spammer appeared to be selling our tshirts.

Looking back through this thread I realise it has one of my all time fave posts I did, with puns and everything. Though it is boorish to point out the excellence in one's own post, I draw attention to this fact.

I have a boss most weekdays. So there's that.

And then beex basically doesn't work unless you use the mobile version, so there's that too...


I didn't really "get" that post Pete, but I will give it the benefit of the doubt since your posts normally are the acebest

If I use the default version, about 50% of posts are rejected with that message, and I have to copy/paste/resubmit/repeat again and again if someone posts in the meantime etc. It's vastly infurating. Any browser, any computer. So I just use the mobile version

Also off-topic, soz.

Me posting 50% less wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing mind you..

Weird.

Type quicker.

No!